Quotes About Manipulation

Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.

Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

There is a paradox in politics that what it takes to get elected is not necessarily what it takes to govern, and my feeling is that trying to control things too much feels icky to me.

I knew Paris was using me, but I also didn't care; I was using her, too. I mean, I was a blogger who was hanging out with Paris Hilton.

I believe that trying to deal with Donald Trump is like trying to play three-card monte in Central Park: it's not going to work out.

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

Congress has no vision for U.P. They want to milk U.P. for those 80 parliamentary seats.

Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.

A party committed to defending the economic interests of rich elites could never win by saying so.

The blind panopticon of capital remains after all, most vulnerable in the realm of 'magic' - the manipulation of images to control events, hermitic 'action at a distance'.

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the Necronomicon is also a manual not only of dream interpretation (a la Freud) but of dream control.

With genetic manipulation you could quite easily create an efficiently transmittable version of H5N1. Swap a human receptor binding domain from a human flu virus into an H5 backbone and you'd improve transmission efficiency enormously. The last couple of years, they've been doing that in labs all over the world to try to anticipate what a human transmissible H5N1 would look like.

Lies had always been an integral part of Nazi propaganda. Whether he was convinced that lies were justified by the greater ends they served or whether he had become incapable through his years of power and his closeness to Hitler of separating wish from sober calculation, falsehood is surely indivisible.

Hitler's power came from his ability to sense the fears and hopes of his audiences and give them back in heightened form.

It was the prerogative of the powerful to betray their servants. You played their game or you played your own. The end was the same.

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Fear binds people together in a way that cannot be achieved by other means. Those who would convert the people back to the old ways need fear, need something that will drive

Our oversized brains evolved, in large part, to detect and resist manipulation by those who want to get ahead at our expense.

If a gift has come to you wrapped in obligations and tied tightly with a ribbon of guilt, then it's not really a gift at all. It's a manipulation. A gift should be something freely given that enhances your life and reminds you lovingly of the giver. If it's not, you simply should not give it a place in your home.

If a gift has come to you wrapped in obligations and tied tightly with a ribbon of guilt, then it's not really a gift at all. It's a manipulation. A gift should be something freely given that enhances your life and reminds you lovingly of the giver. If it's not, you simply should not give it a place in your home.

Tools exist for only one reason: to force the universe into unnatural shapes.